16 Oct
2005
16 Oct
'05
5:51 a.m.
On Oct 17 2005, 0:39, Ethan Dicks wrote:
example, with
On 10/16/05, Pete Turnbull <pete at
dunnington.plus.com> wrote:
The RLV12 comes with a cabinet kit as I described. Sounds like yours
is unusual. I suppose it's possible, even likely, that DEC didn't do
that for the RL8A, but they certainly made cabinet kits consisting of a
short ribbon cable with a Berg connector and transition connector on a
plate for RL11, RLV11, and RLV12.
RL01 and RL02 cables have those funny connectors
at both ends.
Drive-to-drive cables certainly all do, and _most_ interface-to-drive
cables do, but some do not.
In particular, I have seen a 40-pin-Berg-to-RL-drive cable (no ribbon
cable whatsoever)
in two situations; with an RLV12 in a MicroVAX-II, and my own RL8A. > It sounds like you haven't got the ribbon
cable for the interface
end
> either; that would be a short 40-way ribbon with
a Berg connector
on
> each end with one of the opposite-gender funny
RL0x connectors
plugged
into one of
the Bergs.
The rig I think you are describing was typical of the RL11, for a 40-pin ribbon cable to a black connector mounted in
a mountable
metal frame
that accepted a drive-to-drive cable.
Yes, but also for RLV11 and RLV12. I've never seen one without that.
That black transition connector, BTW, is
identical to the transition connectors on the back of the disk drive
units. Worst
case, you can steal/borrow one from a scrap drive.
Indeed.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
16 Oct
16 Oct
10:45 a.m.
On Oct 17 2005, 0:39, Ethan Dicks wrote:
My hard-drive MINC uses a cable like Ethan described. That is, a
cylindrical cable with a Berg socket on one end (which, in that machine,
plugs into an RLV11) and an RL-type plug on the other, which plugs into
one of the 2 RL01s in the cabinet. There's a normal RL-RL cable linking
them, and a terminator, of course.
COme to think of it, I think my RL8A came with that sort of cable.
But they're electrically the same, you can use either.
-tony
On 10/16/05, Pete Turnbull <pete at
dunnington.plus.com> wrote:
The RLV12 comes with a cabinet kit as I described. Sounds like yours
is unusual. I suppose it's possible, even likely, that DEC didn't do
that for the RL8A, but they certainly made cabinet kits consisting of a
short ribbon cable with a Berg connector and transition connector on a
plate for RL11, RLV11, and RLV12. RL01 and RL02 cables have those funny connectors
at both ends.
Drive-to-drive cables certainly all do, and _most_ interface-to-drive
cables do, but some do not.
In particular, I have seen a 40-pin-Berg-to-RL-drive cable (no ribbon
cable whatsoever)
in two situations; with an RLV12 in a MicroVAX-II, and my own RL8A.
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